(A) License required. No person, firm or corporation shall directly or indirectly or by means of any device keep for retail sale, sell at retail, or otherwise depose of any cigarette, cigarette paper, or cigarette wrapper at any place in the city unless a license therefor shall first have been obtained.
(B) Application. Application for the license shall be made to the City Council, and may be granted in their discretion. The applicant shall make full disclosure of all matters relating to the applicant’s name, age, the business in connection with which the proposed license will operate and its location, and such other information as may be required by the Council.
(C) Fees. The fee for every license shall be as set forth in the city fee schedule.
(D) License shall be displayed. Every license shall be kept conspicuously posted at the location for which the license is issued and shall be exhibited to any person upon request.
(E) Restrictions.
(1) No license shall be issued to a person who has been convicted of a gross misdemeanor under M.S. § 609.685, as it may be amended from time to time, within 5 years of the date of the application for a license.
(2) No person shall keep for sale, sell, or dispose of any cigarette containing opium, morphine, jimson weed, bella donna, strychnia, cocaine, marijuana, or any other deleterious or poisonous drug except nicotine.
(F) Revocation of license. The license of any person convicted of a gross misdemeanor under M.S. § 609.85, as it may be amended from time to time, shall be revoked.
(Prior Code, § 303.04)